There is strong evidence that the risk of breast cancer in populations is influenced by environmental factors. Plasma lipids and lipoproteins are known to be under environmental control and to have epidemiological and/or biological characteristics that suggest they may be relevant to breast cancer risk. The purpose of the study described here was to determine whether plasma lipids, lipoproteins...

Fifteen hypertensive patients entered a single-blind study to examine the effects of metoprolol (100 mg twice daily) on fasting plasma lipids. In 12 patients who completed the study, non-esterified fatty acid concentrations fell, but cholesterol and triglyceride levels were unchanged after 12 weeks' treatment. These results conflict with earlier reports of the effect of metoprolol on plasma tri...

Epidemiological data suggesting benefits of increased meal frequency on CHD risk and lipid and lipoprotein levels may be flawed because of biases associated with the method of data collection. In normolipidaemic individuals increasing meal frequency from three to six or more meals daily over a period of several weeks appears to be associated with reduced levels of total and LDL-cholesterol, pos...

40. Landucci L, Macerata A, Marchesi C, Chierchia S, Lazzari M, Maseri A: Real time computer based electrocardiographic and hemodynamic monitoring in CCU. In Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, edited by Lindberg D, Reichen PL. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1979, p 325 41. Chierchia S, Landucci L, Lazzari M, Macerata A, Marchesi C, Maseri A, Simonetti I: A system for real time hemodynamic monitori...

The lipid composition of a membrane fraction from bovine adrenal cortex was determined. This preparation has the capacity to bind adrenocorticotropic hormone and is enriched in adenylate cyclase and 5'-nucleotidase. The adrenal plasma membranes have a significantly higher lipid content (54.8%) than bovine liver plasma membranes and a surprisingly low proportion of this lipid is cholesterol (4.2...

OBJECTIVES We examined the cross-sectional association between lipid fractions and 2 MRI markers of cerebral small vessel disease, white matter hyperintensity volume (WMHV) and lacunes, representing powerful predictors of stroke and dementia. METHODS The study sample comprised 2,608 participants from the 3C-Dijon Study (n = 1,842) and the Epidemiology of Vascular Aging Study (EVA) (n = 766), ...

The major plasma lipids, cholesteryl ester, triacylglycerol, cholesterol and phospholipid, are insoluble in water. They are transported in the circulation as lipoproteins-metabolically diverse macromolecules in which the various lipids are associated with specific polypeptides (the apoproteins). There are four main lipoprotein classes, defined by their size and by the density range within which...

a variety of abnormalities that an internationally acceptable provisional classification is highly desirable in order to facilitate communication between scientists with different backgrounds. The present memorandum presents such a classification; it briefly describes the criteria for diagnosis of the main types of hyperlipidemia as well as the methods of their determination. Because lipoprotei...

a variety of abnormalities that an internationally acceptable provisional classification is highly desirable in order to facilitate communication between scientists with different backgrounds. The present memorandum presents such a classification; it briefly describes the criteria for diagnosis of the main types of hyperlipidemia as well as the methods of their determination. Because lipoprotei...